Proceedings, The Range Beef Cow Symposium XX

Proceedings, The Range Beef Cow Symposium XX

Historically, considerable efforts have been made to understand how nutrition impacts health and productivity during the postnatal period. While maternal nutrition during pregnancy plays an essential role in proper fetal and placental development, less is known about how maternal nutrition impacts the health and productivity of the offspring. Indeed, the prenatal growth trajectory is sensitive ...

Proceedings, The Range Beef Cow Symposium XX

Supplementation of cows grazing rangelands is often beneficial to overcome nutrient deficiencies or imbalances. However, supplemental feeds and their delivery to the cow herd are expenses and thus supplementation decisions should be carefully made to ensure that costs are minimized and benefits in terms of cow performance exceed supplementation costs. When supplementing cows, there are question...

ALPHARMA BEEF CATTLE NUTRITION SYMPOSIUM: Implications of nutritional management for beef cow-calf systems1

Opportunities to Improve Feed Efficiency of Beef Production

Beef cow-calf efficiency has been a topic of several review and symposium papers. A primary focus of many discussions on beef cowherd efficiency has centered on reproductive success and calf yield per cow, or more simplistically calf weight divided by cow weight. Reproduction and weaning weight are important but research has also demonstrated potential benefit from selecting for metabolic effic...

Beef SpecieS SympoSium : potential limitations of NRc in predicting energet - ic requirements of beef females within western

Assessment of beef cow energy balance and efficiency in grazing-extensive rangelands has occurred on a nominal basis over short time intervals and has not accounted for the complexity of metabolic and digestive responses; behavioral adaptations to climatic, terrain, and vegetation variables; and documentation of the effects of nutrient form and supply to grazing cattle. Previous research using ...